RE: Real democracy
March 4, 2022 at 12:59 am
(This post was last modified: March 4, 2022 at 1:05 am by The Grand Nudger.)
It sounds like the kind of regime I'd impose militarily when I didn't trust people to make good political decisions. I'd actually be surprised if it didn't work better than our current system, so long as we're narrowly defining work as "get the bridge built". If working includes keeping people from throwing molotov cocktails at you, probably a no go.
Fuedalism is, in practice, a group of certified experts making decisions for their local community - for example. "Those with university degrees and proven experience" is a pipeline for wealthy children, and those wealthy children will keep it that way, you betcha. Something that I think is crucial to democracy, that we don't always put out front or shine positive light on - is that it's not really democracy unless you have the ability to fuck it all up, intentionally, because that's the will of the people. I'm not fond of it, but there it is. It's not really democracy unless the dumbest goobers vote is worth the same as the smartest man alive.
Fuedalism is, in practice, a group of certified experts making decisions for their local community - for example. "Those with university degrees and proven experience" is a pipeline for wealthy children, and those wealthy children will keep it that way, you betcha. Something that I think is crucial to democracy, that we don't always put out front or shine positive light on - is that it's not really democracy unless you have the ability to fuck it all up, intentionally, because that's the will of the people. I'm not fond of it, but there it is. It's not really democracy unless the dumbest goobers vote is worth the same as the smartest man alive.
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